{"id":93,"date":"2013-09-08T19:22:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/?p=93"},"modified":"2019-09-27T10:52:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T14:52:23","slug":"parenting-styles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/parenting-styles\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting Styles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was at <a title=\"Lion Country Safari\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lioncountrysafari.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lion Country Safari<\/a>&nbsp;with my family today and of course being a therapist, I love to look around and see what everybody else is doing.&nbsp; On one side of me, I had a couple who ordered all fried food for themselves and for their children and on the other side I had a&nbsp;husband and wife&nbsp;order kids meals with fried food.&nbsp; Both families let their children sit by themselves while they sat at a different table.&nbsp; It occurred to me how many different<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/category\/parenting\/\"> parenting <\/a>styles there are and if one is better than the other?<\/p>\n<p>I believe that we are role models for our children and what we do they do as well.&nbsp; I try to live a healthy life and reflect that onto my children and wonder if others are thinking how their food choices affect their children&#8217;s choices.<\/p>\n<p>I also do not believe in making my children finish their food.&nbsp; If they want dessert, it makes me believe that they have room for more food so I do make them finish in that case, but over feeding a child is just wrong to me and I think it leads to more problems in the future.&nbsp; I overheard a mother say to her child today, &#8220;You need to sit on your bottom and finish your food or else I have no problem yanking your pants down and spanking you right here.&#8221;&nbsp; Okay, so what is the issue for me here.&nbsp; It is actually the forcing your child to finish your food.&nbsp; I was watching this boy and he was full and he was done.&nbsp; So why was he forced to eat?&nbsp; I am not sure.&nbsp; Now, I am sure she was looking at my children who left half of their food and were up from the table throwing out our food and saying, &#8220;Gosh, why isn&#8217;t she parenting?<\/p>\n<p>So which is right or wrong?&nbsp; The answer is simple, there is no right or wrong, it is just what you know.&nbsp; I can only hope that we all continue to try to be better people for our children so they have the best example to follow.&nbsp; We only know what we have been taught and we are all doing the best we can, but is that good enough?&nbsp; Should we be doing better?<\/p>\n<p>Let me know your thoughts because I would like feedback on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Lion Country Safari&nbsp;with my family today and of course being a therapist, I love to look around and see what everybody else is doing.&nbsp; On one side of me, I had a couple who ordered all fried food for themselves and for their children and on the other side I had a&nbsp;husband&#8230;<br \/> <a class=\"read-more magicmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/parenting-styles\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[19,11,36,10,37],"class_list":["post-93","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parenting","tag-children","tag-discipline","tag-food","tag-parenting","tag-role-model"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parenting Styles - Face to Face Therapy<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facetofacetherapy.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/08\/parenting-styles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Parenting Styles - Face to Face Therapy\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was at Lion Country Safari&nbsp;with my family today and of course being a therapist, I love to look around and see what everybody else is doing.&nbsp; On one side of me, I had a couple who ordered all fried food for themselves and for their children and on the other side I had a&nbsp;husband... 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